NHL sees Turner Sports rights deal as key fan development tool

Ice hockey icon Wayne Gretzky famously said that as a player, he skated “to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” The National Hockey League, less than two months removed from its landmark domestic media rights agreement with the Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN, is now trying to do the same thing with its latest domestic rights deal with Turner Sports.

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